Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

A Great War M.C. group of six to Major C. E. Marshall, Royal Field Artillery, late City Imperial Volunteers

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (81 Pte., C.I.V.); 1914-15 Star (Capt., R.F.A.); British War and Victory, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Major); Defence, mounted as worn, very fine and better (6) £600-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late A. A. Mount.

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M.C. London Gazette 4 June 1917. (T./ Capt., R.F.A.).

M.I.D. London Gazette 21 July 1917, 11 June 1918 and 30 January 1919.

Charles Bennett Marshall was born on 25 January 1879 and was educated at Cheltenham College. He served in the ranks of the C.I.V. during the Boer War and in the Great War was commissioned in 1914 and promoted Captain in 1915. He served in France, September - December 1915 and Salonika, December 1915 - November 1918. Promoted Temporary Major on 25 February 1918, he was released in January 1919. By profession a solicitor, he was Secretary of the Land Agent Society 1909-19 and Secretary to the Estates Commission of the Royal Commission on the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge 1919-22. He retired in 1945 and died in 1960.